03/26/1956 Board of Public Works Minutes

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4 5) 7 • • 0 E r� Is Danny Richardson, Street Commissioner, appeared before the Board with reference to the request by the School City for the use of the Street Department grader to be used behind the Thomas Jefferson School. Permission granted. Danny Richardson now requests permission from the Board for Mr. Eger and himself to at tend the Purdue University Road School program. Said school program being held between the 2nd and 6th days of April, 1956. Permission granted. Mr. Earl Kuntz, 2909 South Michigan Street appeared before the Board with reference to the condition of Woodside Blvd. and Michigan Street. Mr. Kuntz appeared before the Board on a prior ocassion in 1955 at shich time attention was called to the correction Woodside Blvd. and Michigan St. At said time, the Board took action to handle the correction of said corner and to this date has not been corrected. The Board now having heard the re- sults took the following action; The City Engineer was requested to contact the proper- ty owner and ask that he come to the Board before the Board in reference to said problem, on Monday, April 2, 1956. A petition was received for the improvement of the alley from the 1100 block on Foster Street to St. Joseph St. and from St. Vincent Street to the intersection of Foster -St. Joseph alley by the construction of conerete(Asphalt Alternate) according to law. Referred to City Engineer. A petition was received for the improvement of Gertrude Street from Prairie Avenue to City Limits by the construction of .Class C Pavement according to law. Referred to City Engineer. Special Police Officer bonds were approved for Joseph J. Horvath and Alphonse Zack. Ernest H. Miller, Traffic Engineer, submitted to the Board his report on the Council Resolution adopted February 27, 1956, requesting investigation of traffic conditions and conditions of South Shore rails and pavement on LaSalle Street between Lincoln Way West and Main Street. Accepted and filed. An.excavation bond in the sum of $1000 was approved for John Lineback & Son, Plumbing and Heating Company. This being the date set for the bids for the Street Department gravel, and no bids hav- ing been received the Clerk of the Board was authorized to purchase the materials. H. W. Hunter, Contractor, requested permission to set date from March 5, 1956 to Apri 1956 to begin work on the Sewage Lift Station under Contract No. 7 A. Permission grant C. Harry Swanson, Inc. requested permission to locate a temporary warehouse on a plat of City -owned land. Permission granted with the following conditions: 1. that sai-a 'temp orary warehouse will be removed by September 1, 1956, 2. that C. Harry Swanson, Inc. pos with the City indemnity insurance holding the City free and harmless of any damage to per sons, property, or equipment located on said City -owned lot, 3. that you agree to leave the premises in a clean and sightly condition after such temporary warehouse is removed. Plans for the sidewalk vault on 120 S. Michigan and 312 W. Colfax was accepted by the Board and filed. IMPROVEMENT RESOLUTION CONFIRMED RESOLUTION NO. 2829, 1956 For the improvement of Woodlawn Blvd. (Lots 373, 374, and 375 only) from Inglewood Blvd. to the existing manhole at Lot #372., under Improvement Resolution No. 2829, 1956, adopt- ed March 5, 1956 by constructing a local combined sewer. After hearing all persons interested who appeared and being fully advised on the uremiso's .and the Clerk of the Board having shown proofs of publication of the notices to property 11 owners and the same having been found sufficient, the Board decides that the benefits to the property liable to be assessed for said improvement are equal to the estimated cost of the same as reported by the City Civil Engineer, therefore BE IT RESOLVED by the Board of Public Works & Safety of the City of South Bend, Indiana; :tha.t Improvement Resolution No. 2829, 1956, duly passed by this Board on March 5, 1956, ''for the above improvement, be and the same is hereby in all things confirmed (First Con- 1firmation, March 26, 1956) and the improvement is hereby ordered to be made. R. S. Andrysiak Frank J. Bruggner Irving J. Smith "Anthony J. Sabo, Clerk The Board of Public Works has authorized that a letter be directed to Mr. D. B. Ing- ;old, Superintendent of the New York Central Railroad, requesting that a flagman be sta- tioned at the Riverside Drive crossing on the tracks adjacent to the Angela Boulevard �jBridge to lead the train across the crossing.